Joy Global Services, P & H 4100XPC Shovel.
Kumba Iron Ore has purchased a new Shovel.. and this one is not the garden type variety… Oh no I would want to see someone pick this up and dig in the garden. This shovel is so big it could probably pick up your house in one go. The bucket or “Dipper” as it is known in their terminology has a capacity of 104 tons or 61 cubic metres and a tall man looks a little like a stick insect in the bucket…
it will only take four passes to fill a truck of this size that has the capacity to carry 450 tons of ore…
Electrically operated with all the most modern innovations possible, although I suppose with the next model that will have more innovations, this is an expensive piece of equipment to improve the mining capacity.
High in the sky………. in fact 21 metres high…
and the crowd gather around to see how many can fit in the Dipper…. only joking, they have better things to do, or have they?
Photos courtesy of my son… thanks Boy… and to assist the photos to show its true size, a diagram of the 4100XPC.
The Photographic Journey of bulldog. 
Just a few quick swipes with that shovel and the whole eastern coast of this country would be devoid of the piles of snow that have fallen already this winter!
That is so true… should I send you one?? lol
Maybe my relatives up north could use one. We are basking in the sunshine in the Keys. 🙂
Stay there… don’t go north.. this a warning from sunny SA… I’ll send them to someone else…
We have our feet firmly planting in white-sand beaches for the foreseeable future! 🙂
Having worked in construction and seen some large and impressive machines I can appreciate these and what they will do to speed up production. I hope whoever has invested in them has enough work to keep them going. I wouldn’t like to be paying their hourly rate!
This is Anglo American Kumba Iron Ore Mine… they can afford it, need it and still have far to go before the ore is mined out… I think they bought two of these… they move 4 trains a day of 300 odd trucks each carrying 100 tons of ore… I recently read their financial statement to share holders… wish I had some of their shares…
That’s impressive! I have never seen anything quite like this! Thanks for including a photo of the view from the driver’s seat!
Thanks Debra… this is not the biggest on the mine I believe, so I need to do some snooping…
Unbelievable technology caught on camera. . I imagine these huge contraptions would do well in a theme park for youngsters’ rides!!!!
They have a few older models parked in town that the kids can have some fun on, but they are so big even those intimidate the kids…
Now that’s when you can boast “I have a big one”. I think bloody big is an understatement. What a great feat of engineering.
One could sure win a bragging contest with this one… “Mines bigger than yours” could be totally misconstrued if such an argument happened in a pub, but it would be quite hilarious…
All I could think of was…how fast I could get the yard work done with these huge monsters☺
To quick swipes and the yard would probably disappear…lol
OMG!!!!!!! This is so huge!!!!!!!!!
It is big Abi… more so than what the photos show…
Environment messer-uppers, in a big way!
Yes you are right, but what a tax earner for the country… with their exports they must be the biggest income earner in the country, and what I do enjoy is the millions they plough into local business development in their area,,, a lot of previously disadvantaged are no longer in that position due to their hand outs…
As long as the handouts are enabling ones, rather than encouraging lethargy, that is good.
They set up and pay for businesses that I’ve been to look at when in the area, it is nice to see the wealth that these locals are now enjoying from hard work and just getting that little financial push to get them going… no loans to payoff makes a business profitable so much quicker, I know, having been down the road of paying exorbitant interest rates on loans from banks to try and get a business on its feet…. …
Your boy took fantastic shots 😀 🙂
Thanks Paula…
One certainly couldn’t be afraid of heights operating that thing! I am surprised they don’t have a lift to get into the cab.
I’m glad I don’t have to get up there every day…
E’ mostruosa da tanto è grande, wowwww
Ciao, Pat
That it is Pat…
Now THAT’s a monster for you, Bulldog!
That it is Adee…
I’ll have one of those, please. Ideal to declutter the kids’ bedrooms 🙂
That should do the job,… kids room… might need a few scoops…
Wow! That shovel is humongous, bulldog. I wonder how much it costs. 😕 Tell your son “Great pics, especially that first one.” 🙂
Will do AD, I have no idea what these things cost, but I’m sure you’d need at least a couple of hundred Million rand…
Ok, so I can’t ask Santa for one. 🙂
WOW…must have been amazing to see these in person!
I have seen a lot of their equipment from either just outside the fence or once when I had a tour of the mine… that stuff is beyond belief huge…
Maybe they could come shovel the snow from my street?? 😉
If it could fit in your street… it’s fairly wide as well
Good grief – that’s huge!
That’s for sure…
WOW! For the driver to get to the driver’s seat is probably an all-day climb!
I had the opportunity to get into the driver cab of the big dumper… that was an unexpected climb..
Hey, after all the snow we have had this winter, we could really use that shovel for our driveway LOL!!
That’s for sure, but then you’d have to go to work everyday, no more excuses…
Oh ya, forget that idea!!
Most impressive….that’s some shovel!
Thanks Gay… bloody huge…
I want one of these shovels for SHARKTOOTH hunting!
That would move mountains for you, tripling your collection in a day…lol
And I could get the giant sloth fossils too!
Amazing! Al’s dad use to work for Caterpillar tractors and some of that equipment was equally impressive 🙂
CAT are also on the mine with some of there big machines… these things just amaze me in how damn big they’re getting…